HARVEY-RELATED ACTIVITIES
HARVEY-RELATED ACTIVITIES
HARVEY-RELATED ACTIVITIES
Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017 near Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the next five days the storm devastated the Texas coast, dropping over 36 inches of rain over 2500 sq mi area and causing unprecedented levels of damage. Harvey is likely the costliest storm in U.S. history, exceeding Hurricane Katrina. Life-threatening flooding in the City of Houston and surrounding areas caught the world’s attention.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017 near Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the next five days the storm devastated the Texas coast, dropping over 36 inches of rain over 2500 sq mi area and causing unprecedented levels of damage. Harvey is likely the costliest storm in U.S. history, exceeding Hurricane Katrina. Life-threatening flooding in the City of Houston and surrounding areas caught the world’s attention.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017 near Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the next five days the storm devastated the Texas coast, dropping over 36 inches of rain over 2500 sq mi area and causing unprecedented levels of damage. Harvey is likely the costliest storm in U.S. history, exceeding Hurricane Katrina. Life-threatening flooding in the City of Houston and surrounding areas caught the world’s attention.
Severe Storm Prediction, Education, & Evacuation from Disasters Center
Carbon Credits
Carbon Credits and the Environment: A Vision for the
Economic and Environmental Future of Texas
In the future, nature-based carbon credits have the potential to transform ecological conservation in Texas, the United States and the world. Nature-based carbon credits create a system of payment to landowners for managing their working lands to provide ecological services such as carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere and storage in the soil of the prairies and croplands, the trees of our forests and the coastal wetlands that surround us all. In addition to these natural ecological functions, carbon credits may also contribute to cleaning up many of the abandoned, idled and orphaned oil and gas wells that are leaking methane.
For more information, see article below.
Carbon Credits and the Environment: A Vision for the Economic and Environmental Future of Texas
by Jim Blackburn, Elizabeth Winston Jones and James Fitzgerald
The Voluntary Carbon Market: The Next Stage of Non-Structural Engineering
In the graphic above, the synergistic relationship between urban sources of carbon dioxide emissions and farms and ranches in the lower lying areas of the Houston-Galveston region, indicating the potential of carbon credits to provide non-structural flood protection. In fact, the practice of issuing carbon credits for the natural ecological functions of prairies, marshes and forests has the potential to be a major non-structural water supply and flood protection tool for the future. To date, non-structural alternatives have been focused on regulation or buyouts by either fee simple or easement conveyance. However, carbon credits provide payment to landowners for managing their land to optimize carbon drawdown without requiring the land to change hands or to be involuntarily restricted. By utilizing the voluntary carbon market, the rural economy of Texas and the United States can be maintained and enhanced while offering significant flood protection and water supply enhancements.
For more information, see the article below.
“The Voluntary Carbon Market: The Next Stage of Non-Structural Engineering” by Jim Blackburn and Elizabeth Winston Jones
Blue Carbon Project Will Create a Living Shoreline to Protect Coastal Ecosystems in Galveston Bay
Rice University, BCarbon and Scenic Galveston have launched an innovative project to protect the Kohfeldt Marsh near Texas City from sea level rise through the design and creation of a living shoreline. The effort combines land conservation with carbon credit financing, supporting marshland resilience against erosion and climate change. As part of a special credit course, Rice students will be actively involved in the design of the shoreline.